Why are some countries rich and others poor? Finding the answer to this vital question would deserve a Nobel Prize. Indeed, that is the motivation of this year’s economic award, awarded to Acemoglu, ...

Hannah Lord is a PhD student and Sir Roland Wilson scholar, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University.

“Tariff” might be Trump’s favourite word underpinning his threat to apply a 60 per cent imposts on Chinese imports and 10 per on everyone else. This was one of his strongest election themes, despite ...

Has Indonesia surrendered its position on the South China Sea? Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto visited China this week, and on 9 November Beijing released a joint statement in English claiming a ...

Last month, the BRICS countries held their 16th summit in the Russian city of Kazan, this time featuring an expanding ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto was in China last week, his second visit since winning the Indonesian election. What made this visit so surprising was the joint statement released after the ...

Its inevitability did not make it any less shocking. Just after 8:30pm on Wednesday, after talks to pave a way forward for Germany’s long-unloved three-party governing coalition failed, came the news ...

In this episode, we explore what might happen at COP29, the upcoming UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. With global emissions at record highs and climate impacts intensifying, this year’s ...

Since Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin announced their “friendship without limits” in February 2022 on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has become commonplace among many Western analysts, and ...